(Boobs & Booze)
"Hey, Yuugi, you want to come up to Tokyo with us?" Jounouchi asked when Yuugi emerged from his room on Saturday morning. Yuugi smiled as he noticed Jounouchi was watching cartoons, munching on cold leftover rice.
"What for?" Yuugi asked, going into the kitchenette to find something to eat, secretly glad that Anzu had bought groceries when she invited everyone over for the anniversary. In the end, he made some toast and made his way back into the living area, dropping onto the couch next to Jounouchi. "Is there something in Tokyo we can't get here?"
"Otogi wants to go to a strip club, maybe do some bar hopping. He invited me and Honda to go, and I figured since Mokuba's gone for the weekend you might want to come with."
Yuugi grinned as he ate his toast. "You guys would drive for three hours to go to a strip club? There are plenty of those here," he said with a mouth half-full of toast.
Jounouchi shrugged, his attention turning back to the TV. "Fresh meat, I guess. Just think of the drive as bonding time between friends."
"Okay. What time are we getting back?"
"I don't know, depends on if we have a designated driver."
"I can do that. I'd rather be home by tomorrow morning."
Jounouchi snickered and wrapped his arm affectionately around Yuugi's shoulders. "You are so hopelessly in love, did you know that? It's so damn sweet that it could give a man cavities."
Yuugi smiled. "That was corny, Jou." But it was true: Yuugi did love Mokuba, and everyone knew it. But… "Sometimes I wonder if the feeling is mutual."
"Eh?" Jou responded with confusion. "What would make you worry about something like that?"
"I'm Mokuba's first. I expect him to get bored and move on, experiment more. After all, isn't that what teenagers do?"
"Yuugi… you have never been so wrong. Mokuba is devoted to you; everyone can see it. You shouldn't be so paranoid."
"I know, but… he gets hit on all the time. He is a Kaiba after all, and he can be just as arrogant as his brother at times. Someday, it just might occur to him that his options aren't limited, and he might want to just… play the field."
Jounouchi groaned. "That's ridiculous. And don't compare Kaiba and Mokuba… that's just wrong. But trust me, buddy, you've got nothing to worry about. So have some fun tonight, all right?"
Yuugi smiled brightly. Somehow, Jounouchi always made him feel better. "Okay. I'll have fun, I promise."
By the time they arrived in Tokyo, Yuugi vowed never to "bond" with his friends via car trip ever again. It hadn't helped much that Honda kept asking Yuugi if he was sure Mokuba wouldn't mind they were taking him all the way to Tokyo to a strip club (to which Yuugi replied that if there weren't other men stripping, then Mokuba wouldn't mind at all), but it was mostly Otogi's driving: he drove like a bat out of hell. Yuugi was sure they were going to get a ticket for speeding on the toll road… and he still wasn't sure how that ticket had never come, but he wasn't going to knock it. It was 7 PM when they arrived in Tokyo, and Yuugi was almost excited that traffic forced Otogi to slow down.
"Let's get some food first," Jounouchi suggested. "It's too early to go anywhere else, and I'm starving!"
"You're always starved, Jou," Otogi retorted. Jounouchi shrugged and grinned.
"Then we should get some food; you wouldn't want my rumbling stomach scaring off your girls."
They went to dinner, unoriginal as it was, at McDonalds; it was close to one of the places Otogi wanted to go first. Yuugi noticed that Jounouchi was unusually quiet throughout the whole of dinner, letting Otogi, Honda, and Yuugi do most of the talking, and occasionally pitching in an opinion here and there. It was strange. Jounouchi wasn't able to surprise Yuugi very often.
"Are you okay?" Yuugi asked as they walked to their destination.
Jounouchi answered perkily, "Fine."
Honda noticed Yuugi's question and waited for Jounouchi and Yuugi to catch up. "Don't worry about him; I'm sure he's just excited; I know I am." He wrapped his arm around Jounouchi's shoulders. "New place, new girls… It'll be great!"
"Heh," Jounouchi responded, shrugging Honda's arm off. "It's a shame all the girls fall for me first." Yuugi noted that Jounouchi's words were confident, but his tone was a little less assured. Yuugi frowned; Jounouchi wasn't nervous about meeting new girls, was he? That was completely unlike him.
Otogi cut in, "I've got you both beat. Women fall to my feet like peasants to a king." Yuugi laughed and left the three of them to their debate until they arrived to the strip club.
…Which wasn't very interesting. Yuugi had expected to be bored, so it didn't come as a shock that he wasn't as fascinated as his friends… though he was amused by some of the ways the women could bend: he expected one of them to snap in half at any moment. Yuugi ended up watching a small TV in the corner, occasionally jumping into the conversations his three friends were having. That was when he realized that Jounouchi was quiet once again. He watched as Jounouchi took a sip of his beer, eyes also fixed on the TV.
"Jou," he asked warily, "why are you watching TV?"
Jounouchi glanced towards the stripper currently winding her way around the pole on stage. "She's not very interesting."
"What do you mean?" Otogi demanded. "She's great! Look at her!"
"Oh, stop droolin'. They're just boobs."
Yuugi gawked and his voice was full of wonder as he questioned, "When did you stop liking girls?" Both Honda and Otogi were now focusing their undivided attention on Jounouchi, and the blond blushed, taking a swig of his beer.
"It's not that I, ah, don't like girls, I just…"
Yuugi understood and finished with a note of triumph, "You like boys too!" Jounouchi hesitated before nodding. Honda looked like he had swallowed a bar of soap, and Otogi was shaking with suppressed laughter.
"So, wait, you're bi?" Honda asked. Jounouchi nodded once again, taking another gulp of his drink and looking increasingly nervous. There was an awkward moment of silence before Honda slowly said, "Okay. I was going to be worried if all my friends turned out gay."
Otogi leaned over and wrapped his arms around Honda's shoulders. "You still got me to worry about, baby," he commented, pecking Honda's cheek. Honda made a face and shook Otogi off.
"Sorry," he said, a comical twinkle in his eyes, "you're not my type."
Jounouchi chuckled, apparently put at ease by the banter amongst his friends. Yuugi was glad that Honda was taking the news so well. He could still remember the way Honda had stared at him for five straight minutes when he learned that Yuugi and Mokuba were together. "Well why not," Jounouchi asked, "Otogi's feminine enough." Otogi scowled and flipped him off. Jounouchi smiled sweetly. "Sorry; you're not my type either."
Yuugi started laughing so hard that he was sure the whole building heard him. "Looks like you're stuck with girls tonight, Otogi."
Otogi flashed Yuugi a lecherous grin. "I'm okay with that. Man, you really don't know what you're missing."
Yuugi shrugged. "And I don't care to find out. But, Jou, how did realize you were bisexual?" Yuugi couldn't help but notice that he said "bisexual" as though he cherished the word; it was exciting to learn he and Jounouchi had more in common than he had known.
"A friend," Jou answered cryptically.
"Ooh, do I know him?"
Jou nodded. "You did."
Honda stared. "Did? Did he move away?"
Jou cringed. "Something like that."
"Oh!" Yuugi said. His amusement was quick to change to dismay. "Was it Ryou?" Jounouchi nodded, and there was a moment of discomfort among the four males. Yuugi finally asked, "Were you guys together when-"
"Nah," Jounouchi answered, looking up. He was smiling, and the sight was relieving. At least Jounouchi hadn't been upset by Yuugi's questions. "It was never like that. We were just really good friends."
In any other circumstance, Yuugi would have found that amusing, but it didn't seem appropriate to laugh right then. Yuugi was more than eager to change the subject. "So, are there any other guys you've got your eye on?"
Jounouchi blushed again. "No; I'm on a 'look but don't touch' basis right now."
"Ah," Otogi said. "You're just nervous to shack up with someone else. Either way, I'm bored. You guys ready to do some drinking?" Jounouchi was the first one standing.
"Let's party," he said.
It was 4 AM when Yuugi pulled Otogi's car into the parking lot of the apartment building. Honda and Otogi were literally piled on top of each other in the backseat, both passed out soundly. Jounouchi was sitting in the passenger seat, keeping Yuugi entertained, and even though he had drunk too much to drive, he was surprisingly sober.
"We should leave 'em in the car," he said. "I don't want to lug their asses upstairs."
Yuugi leaned his head back against the seat, turning off the car. "What if something bad happens to them?" he retorted. "We can't do that. Besides, you had no problems with grabbing Otogi's ass earlier…"
Jounouchi blushed. "He started it. He shouldn't have made that comment that he had never been hit on by another guy…"
Yuugi and Jounouchi sat in silence; Yuugi didn't know what was going through Jounouchi's mind, but he was trying to think of ways to get their two drunken counterparts up to their apartment.
Jounouchi was first to break the silence. "What's it like, being with Mokuba for four years?"
Yuugi smiled warmly at the thought of Mokuba. He missed him, and it had only been two days. Jounouchi was right; it was so sweet it COULD give a man cavities. "It's great… a little shocking at times, but great." Yuugi looked to his friend. "And what was it like with you and Ryou?"
"Kinky," Jounouchi answered without hesitation, and in the dim light Yuugi could see he was grinning. "Which was a lot of fun, once I got all the shit sorted out and was able to cope with liking guys and all."
"How did it happen?"
Jounouchi's grin widened, and Yuugi had to smile; it was contagious. "He cornered me in the bathroom at school one day and kissed me. I won't lie, he was a terrific kisser - hell, he was great in just about everything he did with his mouth - but it freaked me out, ya know? I even had to cancel my date that weekend: I was that confused. She was hot too," Jounouchi added wistfully.
"You have no regrets." It wasn't a question, it was statement; Yuugi could tell.
"Nope. It was fun while it lasted, and it ended well."
"How?"
"One day he was just… done with our games. He told me goodbye and hooked me up with a great girl on his way out. We were just friends after that. Ryou was a great guy." Yuugi found something disturbing and sad about Jounouchi referring to his relationship with Ryou as "games." Yuugi had hoped the story would be a little deeper, more meaningful. Another moment of silence passed between them. "When does Mokuba get back tomorrow… um, today?"
"Around ten."
"Then we need to go to bed," Jounouchi said, reaching over the seat and smacking Honda. "Get up."
"Ugh," Honda grunted in his sleep. He tried to roll over, but in all his squirming he managed to knock Otogi to the floor. The black-haired male blinked several times, slowly waking.
"Huh?" he finally asked almost incoherently. "Are we back?"
"Yea," Yuugi answered. "You guys can crash on the couch or something." Yuugi got out of the car and went to the back door, opening it and helping Otogi out. Otogi leaned against the car, yawning.
"You shoulda left us in the car," he murmured, and Jounouchi flashed Yuugi an "I told you so" look as he dragged Honda to his feet. Yuugi and Jounouchi managed to get their friends up the apartment with no damage… even though Jounouchi callously dropped Honda onto the floor in front of the couch when they got there. After leaving the passed-out males a couple blankets, Jounouchi and Yuugi retired to their respective rooms for the night.
- author's thoughts... -
a great thanks to purplechaos04 (over at MediaMiner) for pointing out a callous miswording. My bad. ARIGATO!!!! *being all stalkery and over-enthusiastic about it... but deal. ^_^*
This is starting pretty slow, huh? Hmm… I'm sorry. v.v
Hehe, all you HondaxOtogi fans can pick up your jaws; I just wanted to have fun with those two. They're straight in the story… though Honda does have another questionable moment later…
You know, I was thinking… I really don't like the last line of part I. I mean, I like the MEANING to it, but I don't like the way I phrased it. It sounds really haughty to me. But I've had an English teacher who ingrained in my head that "things" is a bad word, so I struggle with when to use it and when not to… arg arg. I don't know.
Sorry this took so long; I've had it since last Sunday, but just NOW got off my ass to work on it. ^^
Ahh, that Ryou thing... eventually it does get explained, but it didn't fit into the story here. But it does get explained. Funny, as its not a big point in the story, lol. But I don't know, I thought the crypticness was fun. :)